Re: [PATCH 2/3] ui: Switch "-display sdl" to use the QAPI parser

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 5/17/22 10:34, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > This remains, and that's fine.  One step at time.
>
> Not sure how we want to proceed with that in the long run, though ... 
> IIRC clearly, Paolo once said that it doesn't really belong into 
> "-display" anyway and should be handled with the separate "-vnc" option 
> instead?

Not me, Gerd 
(https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210825092023.81396-2-thuth@redhat.com/T/#e8c4f826cc8ff48b9afad37703e11704137f540c8):

> Other way around, -display vnc should be dropped.  -display is about
> local displays, and there can be only one instance.  -vnc / -spice
> enable remote access, and this can be done in addition to a local
> display.
>
> not possible:
>  -display gtk + -display sdl
>
> possible:
>  -display gtk + -vnc
>  -display gtk + -vnc + -spice
>  -display none + -vnc + -spice

For what it's worth, Libvirt uses both -vnc and -spice, so we might very 
well proceed with Gerd's idea.  If we don't like -vnc and -spice then it 
may be possible to QOMify them and go with -object.

Thanks,

Paolo